Top 100 Unravel'd Quotes
#1. Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
Omar Khayyam
#2. Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
Edwidge Danticat
#3. My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.
Kenny Loggins
#5. His eyes flashed and the misconception that he didn't know passion dissolved. He knew it. He wielded it. He hid beneath layers and layers of mystery I would never hope to unravel.
Pepper Winters
#6. Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
Michel Foucault
#7. He was a mystery to unravel, a puzzle I desperately wanted to solve.
Kendall Ryan
#8. In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
Garry Kasparov
#9. While a part of me wants to know, another part of me is too exhausted to ask.
Tahereh Mafi
#10. People can think whatever they like ... I don't desire their validation.
Tahereh Mafi
#11. First the girl, then the detective, now the wolf. The town was starting to unravel.
John Connolly
#12. Gordian knot, a knot impossible to unravel, and Alexander the Great solved the problem by cutting through it with his sword, in other words by cheating.
Patricia Cornwell
#13. When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
#14. He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.
R.D. Ronald
#15. I'll accept that in order to unravel my story, I need to be destroyed first.
Calia Read
#16. It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.
Cheyenne McCray
#17. ...perhaps it wasn't a matter of strength so much as pliability, a willingness to let life become unpredictable and sometimes even unravel.
Lorna Jane Cook
#18. I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn't control the happenings, it's like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes ...
JaszCab.
#19. Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.
Marija Gimbutas
#20. I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
David Walliams
#21. You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
Anthony Davis
#22. We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
Jon Anderson
#23. I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#24. Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#25. Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many), increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems.
Oswald Chambers
#26. I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.
Will Christopher Baer
#27. Hermione threw herself down into a chair with her arms and legs crossed so tightly it seemed unlikely that she would unravel them for several years.
J.K. Rowling
#28. Magic gave so much to Man, and Man so much to Magic, that their edges blurred, and their threads all tangled, and now they can't be pulled apart. They're bound together, you see, life to life. Halves of a whole. If anyone tried to part them, they'd both unravel.
V.E Schwab
#29. The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?
Terry Tempest Williams
#30. I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#31. Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.
Tracy Chevalier
#32. Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.
Elizabeth Lesser
#33. the world is a tapestry of many colours and patterns. A just leader would celebrate this, not seek to unravel it.
Oliver Bowden
#34. A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#35. We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.
Frederic Raphael
#36. My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy.
Jupiter Cutter
#37. Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
Jason Isaacs
#38. Gods, to fall for someone so hard surely you were bound to break apart. Unravel at the seams because you are undone by how they make you feel.
Penelope Fletcher
#39. A deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)
Robin R. Meyers
#40. Binder didn't plan on being disappointed either. He felt a growing obsession to unstring the secrets the house held, to unravel the Gordian knot time and myth had only tightened.
William Gay
#41. It is frightening, how one lie is just the first strand in an ever increasing fabric of untruth. And once this fabric is woven, it is very hard to unravel.
Juliet Marillier
#42. Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug
#43. If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.
Joseph M. Williams
#44. Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.
Jacqueline McKenzie
#45. There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.
Jodi Picoult
#46. Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that great tower of Babel, to speak always in riddles and never yet to comprehend.
Ned Hayes
#47. Yet each day, he managed to unravel and straighten himself, disgusted and thankful. Wrecked, but somehow not torn into pieces.
Markus Zusak
#48. The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless somehow you can go all the way back to the beginning - rewind and replay everything.
James Patterson
#49. The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
Alistair Begg
#50. A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#51. The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
Yoko Ono
#52. We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the whole. We laugh, we laugh. I'm so far from where I began. I fall, I fall. And I forget that I am.-from Golden Tongue:The Poems of Steven Slaughter
Maggie Stiefvater
#53. Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.
Tara Lynn Masih
#54. It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.
Wally Lamb
#55. We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.
Judy Grahn
#57. The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
Carlos Castaneda
#58. It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#59. Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling.
Chris Pavone
#60. Oh how those eyes could unravel my wardrobe in a heartbeat.
Tijan
#61. You ever wonder what we'd find if we could pick up the threads back to the point where things unravel, where paths cross, and lives pivot, and people come together?
Leylah Attar
#62. I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
Tahereh Mafi
#63. I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
Pat Conroy
#64. So what is the truth?" Mr Umezaki had once asked him. "How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn't want to be known?
Mitch Cullin
#65. Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core
Cecelia Ahern
#66. We don't always plan what happens in our life. Sometimes things just unravel
Scott Hildreth
#67. When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel.
Elizabeth Warren
#68. When you find a safe place to unravel, when you feel the arms of eternity wrapping tight around you - you stay. You don't run and hide, or turn and fight. You stay there.
Elizabeth Maxon
#69. I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution.
Jon Oringer
#70. when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#71. A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
Giovanni Ruffini
#72. I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
Evan Goldberg
#73. We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.
Michio Kaku
#74. Any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.
Hannah Kent
#75. Science in its attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Universe,
Has discovered the ultimate reality that we are all One.
Gian Kumar
#76. We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.
David Levithan
#77. I didn't want the day to unravel. Though looking back, it was not the day, but the four of us, that were beginning to unravel.
Julian Barnes
#78. Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.
Philip Emeagwali
#79. We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others.
Lao-Tzu
#80. The future was spun from moments like this. If she backed away, it might all unravel.
Alice Hoffman
#81. I want to convince you to design a smile just for me.
Tahereh Mafi
#82. Hook your audience with a tiny snag of truth, and the Holy Spirit will unravel the rest.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#84. We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.
J. Michael Straczynski
#85. It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn't resist pulling - despite knowing it could all unravel around me.
"Do you love me?" I ask.
In your hesitation I found my answer.
Lang Leav
#86. These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles started pre-erupting hundred of years before the issues even arose.
Douglas Adams
#87. Warner was supposed to be dead. Warner was supposed to be dead because I was supposed to have shot him but no one supposed I'd need to know how to fire a gun so now I suppose he's come to find me.
He's come to fight.
For me.
Tahereh Mafi
#88. Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.
Jerome Charyn
#89. I am so tired, love.I'm so very,very tired.
Tahereh Mafi
#90. Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau
#92. Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
Sam Kean
#93. All life in the planet is interwoven with all the other creatures in multiple ways. This is the web of life, we don't want it to unravel.
Beatriz Moisset
#94. Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
Lucinda Williams
#95. Its like a button in my brain is broken, like i've developed a disease that forces me to apologize for everything, for existing, for wanting more than what i've been given, and i can't stop.
Tahereh Mafi
#96. The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.
Richard Trumka
#97. If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.
Wojciech Kurtyka
#99. As we travel again between life and death,
Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,
None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us ...
Jay Woodman
#100. People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
Jodi Picoult
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